Abstract

Rooted in my experience of adolescence in suburban Greensboro, Between Walls and Windows examines how intimate and liminal architectural spaces such as bedrooms, cars, and parking lots oscillate between sanctuary and surveillance, shaping emotional experiences of isolation, vulnerability, and exposure. The project investigates how these spatial dynamics destabilize perceptions of safety and control, and how interdisciplinary art practices can translate these pressures into narrative, image, and sound.

Drawing on Michel Foucault’s account of disciplinary surveillance and Gilles Deleuze’s expansion toward decentralized systems of control, this work considers how the gaze has shifted from centralized observation to internalized and diffuse mechanisms that govern behavior and memory. Windows, walls, and thresholds function as material and symbolic interfaces that mediate visibility and concealment.

Situating painting within theatrical and installation-based space, and building on Symbolist and Nabi attentiveness to psychological interiority alongside contemporary practices of fragmentation, the project re-stages domestic architecture as a site where protection and exposure coexist. Through large-scale painting, sound, and performance, it constructs an immersive environment in which memory is fractured, unstable, and inseparable from the spaces that contain it.

Keywords

Painting, Art History, Art, Theatre, Live Music, Performance, Set Design

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